Charlie Brooker's BLACK MIRROR

"what if phones but too much" was Mallory Ortberg

and CB liked it so much he snuck it into last season

I only tried USS Callister but I had to bail on it, so bored of the one-dimensionally toxic dude characters

"what if phones but too much" was Mallory Ortberg

― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 07:09 (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well bugger me

one-dimensionally toxic dude characters

Hrm; I thought the show was fiction

but you want more than one dimension in order to care about what happens to them/other people. that’s one of the reasons the whole negan thing got so stupid.

When I was watching the first episode I was impressed at how committed Matt Damon was to the role and going full schlub -- then I saw that he was played by Landry and I was :(.

The craziest thing that happened in this season of Black Mirror is that Britishers considered Bugsy Malone well liked enough to be a school play

https://www.mtishows.com/bugsy-malone

a popular license for use with small children, apparently

Bugsy Malone is only available to license in the United States and Canada.

cannot forgive this inaccuracy in the show

whoops, wrong licenser

http://www.thebritishblacklist.com/tbbs-nora-denis-reviews-bugsy-malone-lyric-theatre-hammersmith/

apparently it was a popular stage attraction in 2015 in Britain?!?

I figured they just put in something with an uplifting end tune that they were able to easily license, but no, this musical actually had a run in recent years

my school did a production of Bugsy Malone in the 90s

I think Bugsy Malone was quite popular here. At least it seemed to be on TV a lot when I was a kid

It seems like it’s on at least three times over every Christmas period.

yah Britishers love Scot Baio.

We've watched up to Hang The DJ and so far, HTDJ has been the episode that's stuck with me the most. Season 4 seems better overall too than S3

Thought "Metalhead" was thrilling and one of the better things this show has done, but I have soft spot for Terminator-esque scenarios.

Final shot with the box reveal was a little dopey.

have you watched all the episodes?

it's either more or less dopey if you connect it to a teddy bear reference in the last episode

Ahh, haven’t gotten there yet.

The box reveal was super hokey.

I thought the stuffed animal in the last episode was a monkey?

yeah, there’s a vagueness, just kind of “here’s another stuffed animal”

I really, really hope the next season of Black Mirror is them taking old episodes and re-editing/reshooting scenes to make them vastly better. Maybe then I would be wowed.

I want an off-brand Black Mirror ripoff with stories like this: https://www.techspot.com/news/72899-smartphone-battery-explodes-after-man-bites.html

browned glass

'Black Mirror' also a reference to an Aztec scrying stone John Dee ended up in possession of iirc

I liked most of these but accepted the 'do you see' factor as inevitable

what do you think of 'the social network' in terms of being a fincher-directed black mirror episode?

Half way season 3 and this is all just fine

Maybe a couple really good episodes

The shut up and dance episode was the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while but it was good for the lolz

Also yeah weird fetishization of american stereotypes by the british in this show is hilarious bc they’re about half right or something is always off/odd about it

where are people talking about "electric dreams"? 'kill all others' feels like the best black mirror episode in a while

Haven’t watched it

HOOS recommending it?

its hit or miss overall, some great performances mixed in with boring or uncompelling plots, or inventive ideas paired with wooden acting. half very good and half meh. it's generally distinct enough in tone and approach from black mirror but 'kill all others' felt like it could have been a black mirror episode.

a whole episode starring steve buscemi ffs and i could not have been less interested in the outcome

I thought 'The Commuter' was great.

yeah, haunting!

so this choose your own adventure thing then...

Just started the first run-through.

First niggle: when he gets on the bus The Now cassette starts mid-song but the tape is on the run-in because you can see the pink tape.

insufferable

More fucking Brooker crap.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:22 (five years ago) Bookmark

damn this is frumious as hell

I thought it was ok. Not the strongest black mirror but not the worst.

the tree structure allows you five to six endings averaging 90 minutes, but I don't expect anyone's going to get to the other 3.5 hours of footage by the end of the first day

someone post when they figure out how to unlock the next scene by giving the therapist's emergency phone number, we did not get it right. 0451 was of course one number short.

It’s 20541 iirc?

ah! perhaps the secondary fork responds to 20451 instead of 20541

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAtAyycx-uY

I'm more impressed at the ambition and how seamless the experience was than the ~90 min of story/acting/dialogue I watched, which was so-so. I think the concept and the platform narrow a lot of what the story can be, and it felt similar to the Zero Escape video game series, which had more possibilities and a much more interesting story (but, of course, has the freedom of a video game). would love to learn about how they wrote and made the episode tho

the therapist's phone number was completely spelled out in my viewing, not sure if that's always the case. would bet there's some Easter eggs for other numbers but have no desire to try anything out

Yeah i probably won’t return to this. I wonder if it really has staying power as an approach to storytelling. Something tells me it doesn’t—choose your own adventure books never seriously caught on, much as I loved Midnight at Monster Mansion as a seven year old.

Choose Your Own Adventure, as published by Bantam Books, was one of the most popular children's series during the 1980s and 1990s, selling more than 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998

They were no Fighting Fantasy